Words containing f

Aard-wolf means: A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles.

Abaft means: Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse.

Abaft means: Toward the stern; aft; as, to go abaft.

Abortifacient means: Producing miscarriage.

Abortifacient means: A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.

Abuseful means: Full of abuse; abusive.

Acetabulifera means: The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Acetabuliferous means: Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

Acetabuliform means: Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx.

Acetification means: The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.